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Originally Posted by SCION
So, if the keyboard disappears it gets your interest?
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Scion,
That's a good question - I wonder about that myself.... I do admit that I have picked up the K3 in stores many times to look at it because the device is so very pretty. I think the dark graphite case makes the eink really "pop" more (in my head, I mean), and the device IS very lightweight, especially given the screen size.
I don't know how much I like the page buttons. I'm used to the stronger "clickier" buttons on my Nook and now on my PocketBook 360. The K3 buttons are so small and look like they could be pressed by accident a lot while holding the device. I also can't really see being able to turn the pages one handed like I currently do with my PocketBook 360 - I'd have to play around to find a comfortable hold. But I'd probably get use to the device over time.
As far as the physical device, the keyboard definitely turns me off every time I look at the Kindle - I can't stand it. It seems like a criminal waste of space - I almost never use the keyboard and when I do, the "software keyboard" in my PocketBook 360 works fine. I much prefer it to the Kindle keyboard, for my needs.
And then there's the mobi/epub issue - I absolutely will not convert my entire library to mobi files. I don't care that Calibre does bulk conversions - I'd have to keep all the old epub files (since not all my readers speak 'Amazon') in addition to the new mobi ones and my library space would double. What a pain.
I also can't remember if the Kindle features SD card expansion, but I think it doesn't and that's a complete deal-breaker with me for ANY new reader/mp3 player/tablet/whatever device in this day and age.
SO, I guess what I'm saying is, if you stripped the keyboard out of the Kindle 3, made the shoulder buttons a little more convenient for one-handed reading, and gave it epub support (both reading ON the device and for buying FROM Amazon), and provided SD card expansion options, I might very well buy it -
if the library management and device customizability was as good as it is on my PocketBook. But would the resulting device be a "Kindle" at that point?
